Indigenous Farming and Ranching

By James Skeet  Since we have started our journey to farm and ranch on our ancient lands, we have been challenged to create a perspective that describes and articulates our relationship to the land. As a result, we have come across…
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Regenerative Reclamation…Walking in a Sacred Manner

We were 8 years old during the latter part of 1960’s, as three Navajo boys in governmental boarding school huddled in the back room known as the “end room.” With a line of Indian boys all waiting to purchase a boloney sandwich we had manufactured…

Indigenous Bio-Cosmology vs. Industrial Food Production

By James Skeet From the inception of Covenant Pathways and Spirit Farm, Joyce and I have long been concerned about the future of our health. As we studied it, especially from policy, medical field, and dietary stances, the more we felt a…
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We Think Eating Vegetables Is Healthy

A research project completed at Spirit Farm COMPARING THE QUALITY OF THE SOIL WITH FOODS GROWN ON LAND AMENDED WITH MICROBIAL-RICH COMPOST For two years, from mid July 2019 to mid July 2021, Covenant Pathways conducted a research project that…
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Sacrificial Lamb: Nutrient Compromised Foods

Sacrificial Lamb Nutrient Compromised Foods Five years ago, we were so excited to start our own flock of sheep. We purchased four, young, pregnant ewes and eagerly awaited the arrival of our first lamb. He was born on a cold, February morning.…
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Flipping Food Insecurity, One Grower at a Time

Flipping Food Insecurity, One Grower at a Time By James Skeet To begin our discussion, we do not like the phrase“ food insecurity” pegged to a specific group of people. We are all dealing with “food trauma”: food that is neither…
Perfect Storm on the Navajo Nation
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The Perfect Storm on the Navajo Nation

The Perfect Storm on the Navajo Nation By James Skeet I heard a story when I was young, regarding the epic battle between a bear and a badger: One day a young boy,hunting small game in the thick ponderosa and oak trees, heard the crashing…
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The Arrow that Was Heard Around the World

“From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things the flowers of the plains, blowing wind, rocks, trees, birds, animals and was the same force that had been breathed into the first…

The Soil Life Research of Covenant Pathways

Ed Maibach is the director of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication Located on Navajo Nation, 7,100 feet above sea level, in the hauntingly beautiful New Mexican mesa lands south of Gallup and west of the Continental…

Growth and Opportunity

A year of exciting growth, changes, challenges, opportunities and partnerships has stirred individuals and communities. Our farm, Spirit Farm, has seen an increase in newborn pigs and sheep, as well as increase in garden harvest, and in particular…